The minimum wage is now three times that of Indonesia or Vietnam (no wonder manufacturers are struggling).
But because they are all veterans of World War II, Korea or Vietnam, their ranks are shrinking every year.
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Doing excursions on your own in places like China or Vietnam can be very cheap, especially compared to the ship prices.
Mr Lee says he considered manufacturing in Indonesia or Vietnam, but China came out on top in terms of cost and quality.
You can arrange one in China or Vietnam or Mexico extraordinarily quickly.
Instead many prospective parents go to countries such as Guatemala or Vietnam, where the adoption process has, in the past at least, been easier.
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However, wages in places like China or Vietnam are so much lower than those in the U.S., that most anything that can be outsourced to low-wage foreign countries already has been.
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Mohsen Sazegara helped found the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and says the group was originally intended to be a popular force like the Swiss army, the National Guard in the United States or Vietnam's Viet Cong.
Victims who are rescued from the horrors of the flood-ravaged city of New Orleans may have frequent and intense psychological problems similar to those that plague troops returning from Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam--problems that could spread to the rescuers as well.
Thailand's headline consumer-price inflation (4.1% in the year to July) was too high for the central bank's comfort, but lower than in many of its neighbours, such as China (6.5%), India, where wholesale prices rose by 9.2%, or Vietnam, where consumer prices rose by an alarming 23% in the year to August.
Just as in the Philippines in 1900, Mexico in 1913, or South Vietnam in 1961, things didn't turn out as American policy-makers had hoped.
Many of the entrepreneurs who capitalized on the boom after World War II or the Vietnam era have only in recent years been deciding what to do with their wealth.
To me, doing this and knowing that people back home can sleep safely at night and they don't have to come do it--or, you know, even, you know, guys that were in Vietnam or World War II, they know what it's like.
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Next will be Vietnam or Malaysia or other countries, just because their wages are much lower.
Try beach pedicures in Bali, leg-hair threading in Vietnam or having your dead skin nibbled off by doctor fish in Hong Kong.
The WHO travel advice does not apply yet to other areas, such as Singapore, Vietnam or Canada, where outbreaks appear to have been effectively contained.
Mr. Carter said countries that had been considering building new nuclear plants, such as Indonesia, Vietnam or Turkey, may decide not to after the Japanese incident.
There are many who think that strengthening the value of China's currency won't mean American jobs lost to China in the past decade return to US shores - the jobs will simply go to the next low-cost country like Vietnam or India.
DoGoodBuyUs and CharityGiftMarket allow consumers to buy items such as a notebook made by New Forest Earth to prevent deforestation in Mexico and Equador, a rice bowl from Mai Handicrafts to benefit street families in Vietnam or a necklace made by FallingWhistles to promote peace in the Congo.
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There are demands for a write-off, as well as for Russia's debts to the West to be offset by notional loans made long ago to Soviet satellite states such as Vietnam, or by the energy debts accumulated more recently by nearby countries such as Ukraine.
Current U.S. spending of 3.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defense programs is astonishingly lower than the 38% spent at the close of WWII, the 11.7% spent during the Korean War, the 9.8% spent at the height of the Vietnam War, or the average of 5.2% spent during the last decade of the Cold War.
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It's being geared to become Vietnam's Tencent or Shanda, two runaway success stories from China's early start-ups.
Her father might still have been in Vietnam at that point or maybe he had not survived the war.
Instead, consumers would simply end up paying more for imports either from China or other producers, such as Vietnam.
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The Chinese government recognizes that these jobs will eventually be lost to countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, or Indonesia which can be even more competitive on the cost of labor than China.
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That earlier study counted all kinds of PTSD, even if it was caused by some event, like being in a serious car accident, that happened before or after the veteran was in Vietnam.
In the letters that they wrote home they spoke of the horrors of war and the bravery it summoned -- how they endured the slaughter of the trenches and the chaos of beach landings, the bitter cold of a Korean winter or the endless heat of a Vietnam jungle.
In the past couple of years several Asian economies, from Thailand to Vietnam, have introduced, or expanded the reach of, minimum wages.
And in the 1960s, as many as 60, 000 young American men dodged the draft by crossing the 49th parallel, hoping to avoid killing or getting killed in the jungles of Vietnam.
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